Good News is Hard to Find

You just want to post something to make your readers feel good about themselves, but news fillers. News fillers everywhere!

I’d like to hear the news that says we’ve found the cure for cancer and that it would be accessible to the common man, but we don’t get that. Instead we get hot tips on which investment companies have made bids on the patent. and then you never hear about these cures ever again. There would be more talk about these cures, if more people knew about them.

And then there is this culture of fear in people, that if you were to talk about something exclusive, that the bridge and tunnel crowd would come swarming in. The closest thing I can compare it to are: video game exploits. There used to be this money making exploit in a game called Grand Theft Auto Five, where you would unplug your network cable to force the game to repeatedly hand you cash. When word got around, the company took notice and fixed it. Thousands of people were upset. It had been a good way to make money, in a game that notoriously extorts players for time (everything in the game costs hundreds of thousands if not millions of game dollars to purchase).

But if we are to talk about exclusivity, we need to look at the way news fillers are often about elite celebrities. They’re not quite as exclusive as the news expects us to believe if all we ever hear about is them.

Up and coming celebrities, young and enthusiastic, that’s the soul of acting. The actors and actresses that you’ve never heard of, those are the people who inspire you to work.

Instead we get Kim Kardashian. Flaunts her unclothed butt. Tekashi Six9ine. Just Google it. Jennifer Lopez. Flaunts her unclothed butt. George Clooney. Advocated for open borders, but shuttered his own Italian villa after Lake Como became a host for ISIS refugees. These people are the news fillers that pass for good news in the backdrop for hyper partisanship, violence, and politics. What went so wrong that we now champion all the wrong virtues?

What happened to wood crafting, metallurgy, ancient history, community activities and music festivals? Instead we get:

gender altering drugs for kids,

don’t date people who share the same race or you’ll be labelled a racist,

don’t get political or Twitter will ban you,

wide open gates for immigrants who knowingly intend to exploit lax border security,

monogamy is passe,

religion is criminal,

conservatives are not allowed to go into strip clubs, and liberals are encouraged to own sex slaves,